Vladimir Myshkin

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Vladimir Myshkin
Myshkin in 2018
Born (1955-06-19) June 19, 1955 (age 69)
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Height 5 ft 7 in (170 cm)
Weight 154 lb (70 kg; 11 st 0 lb)
Position Goalie
Caught Left
Played for
Krylia Sovetov Moscow
HC Dynamo Moscow
Lukko
National team  Soviet Union
Playing career 1977–1991
Medal record
Men's ice hockey
Representing  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1980 Lake Placid
Gold medal – first place 1984 Sarajevo
World Championships
Gold medal – first place
1979 Soviet Union
Gold medal – first place
1981 Sweden
Gold medal – first place
1982 Finland
Gold medal – first place
1983 West Germany
Bronze medal – third place
1985 Prague
Gold medal – first place
1989 Sweden
Gold medal – first place
1990 Switzerland
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Finland
Canada Cup
Gold medal – first place 1981 Canada
IIHF World Junior Championship
Gold medal – first place 1974 USSR

Vladimir Semenovich Myshkin (

Soviet Union national ice hockey team
in the 1970s and 1980s.

Life and career

Myshkin was born in Kirovo-Chepetsk, Soviet Union. During his career in the Soviet Championship League, Myshkin was consistently among the top goaltenders in the league and his Dynamo Moscow club was always among the best. However, rival Moscow club HC CSKA Moscow won the championship almost every year he played, including an amazing 13-year run from 1977 to 1989, preventing Myshkin from winning a domestic championship until his last year.

Myshkin came to prominence in the late 1970s when he earned a spot on the Soviet national team as a backup to the legendary

Viktor Tikhonov to start in the deciding game in the Challenge Cup tournament against the National Hockey League all stars. Myshkin responded with a sterling effort, shutting out the NHL stars 6-0 to win the Challenge Cup for the Soviets. A couple of months later, he won the 1979 Ice Hockey World Championships
, the others coming in 1981, 1982, 1983, 1989, and 1990.

After Tretiak gave up two goals in the first period of the famous

USA in the medal round of the 1980 Winter Olympics, Tikhonov replaced him with Myshkin. He faced only 2 shots in the second period, and stopped them both, but gave up 2 goals in the third scored by Americans Mark Johnson and Mike Eruzione
. Team USA won the game 4-3 and went on to capture the gold medal with the Soviets taking the silver.

In 1981, Myshkin was a member of the Soviet team that won the Canada Cup, the only time Canada failed to win the tournament. He played in one game and backed up Tretiak for the 8-1 victory in the final.

In 1984, he won his only Olympic gold medal, backing up Tretiak for the last time.

In his first major event as starting goaltender of the Soviet national team, he led the Soviets to a perfect 5-0 record in the round robin of the 1984 Canada Cup by going 3-0 in his three starts before being defeated by Canada 3-2 in overtime in the semifinals. Nonetheless, Myshkin played spectacularly that game in a losing cause, being named the USSR's player of the game, and was named to the tournament all-star team.

At the

Evgeny Belosheikin and Sergei Mylnikov. After 1985, he appeared in three more World Championships, but only as the team's third-string goaltender. In 1991 this was a largely sentimental gesture, as Myshkin had already announced he would retire following the season, and he backed up Andrei Trefilov
and Alexei Marjin in the last World Championship in which the USSR would compete.

Myshkin's final season in 1990 would be a memorable one. First, he won the Soviet League championship for the only time in his career, as his Dynamo club ended CSKA's long championship reign and won its first title since 1954. Then at the World Championships, after watching his team's first nine games, he replaced

Czechoslovakia
5-0 and clinched the gold medal.

Career Statistics

International

Year Team Event GP W L T MIN GA SO GAA SV%
1974 Soviet Union WJC 3 — — — - - - - —
1979 Soviet Union WC 2 1 0 0 73 2 0 1.67 .867
1980 Soviet Union
OLY
 5 4 1 0 260 9 0 2.08 .896
1981 Soviet Union CC 1 0 1 0 60 7 0 7.00 .787
1981 Soviet Union WC 1 0 0 1 60 1 0 1.00 —
1982 Soviet Union WC 3 1 0 1 136 1 2 0.44 .983
1983 Soviet Union WC 3 3 0 0 180 6 0 2.00 .918
1984 Soviet Union OLY 1 1 0 0 60 1 0 1.00 -
1984 Soviet Union CC 4 3 1 0 252 6 1 1.43 .940
1985 Soviet Union WC 10 8 2 0 580 13 1 1.34 .936
1989 Soviet Union WC 1 0 0 0 5 0 0 0.00 —
1990
 Soviet Union WC 1 0 0 0 3 0 0 0.00 —
1991 Soviet Union WC 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 - —
Junior totals 3 — — — - - - - —
Senior totals 33 21 5 2 1669 46 4 1.65 —

References
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